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Frozen pastries recalled in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, Manitoba and N.S.: CFIA
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning consumers across multiple provinces that two brands of frozen pastries have been recalled due to salmonella concerns. The federal authority says Sweet Cream brand and D. Effe T. brand frozen pastries in the apollini mignon, mini lobster tail, Apollo K2, big lobstertail, sf...
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First Nations Health Authority backs harm reduction on B.C. overdose anniversary
WEST VANCOUVER - Deaths from toxic drugs may have dipped, but now is not the time to pull back on life-saving measures, especially given "misinformation" in the public discourse, the top doctor at British Columbia's First Nations Health Authority said Monday. Dr. Nel Wieman said First Nations continue to be d...
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Australia celebrates end to 'Vegemite-gate' after product back on shelves in Toronto
Canada and Australia have shaken hands to end a potential diplomatic dust-up over a yeast-based spread that many Aussies like on toast and crackers. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese thanked Prime Minister Mark Carney and his team on Saturday for helping end "Vegemite-gate" and ensuring a Toronto caf...
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Quebec says no special recruitment measures to attract U.S. doctors, scientists
MONTREAL - Quebec doesn't plan to create any special measures to attract U.S.-based doctors and scientists seeking to flee that country over mass layoffs and cuts to health programs. While several provinces are implementing measures to accelerate doctors from south of the border, Quebec says it won't be one of them. In...
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Liberals, NDP set to launch platforms today; main leaders near Toronto, Vancouver
OTTAWA - The Liberals and the NDP both say they will release their costed electoral platforms today. The documents come after advance voting began Friday with voters packing polling stations across the country. Liberal Leader Mark Carney will release his party's costed platform in Whitby, Ont., in the Greater Toronto A...
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Canada has the critical minerals Donald Trump wants. So what should we do with them?
An ongoing trade war and U.S. President Donald Trump's hunger for critical minerals have brought Canada's rich mineral deposits into the spotlight, with federal and provincial politicians promising to accelerate natural resource projects. Interest in the country's critical minerals surged after Trump started musing abo...
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Health Canada recalls Life Brand Melatonin, Riva Acetaminophen for dosage concerns
Canada's federal health authority has issued a recall warning for two medications over incorrect dosing concerns. Health Canada issued a recall for Life Brand Timed Release Melatonin 10mg on Tuesday, warning in a news release the product is labelled with incorrect dosing instruction. The affected lot numbers are 4D3965...
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Poilievre promises to end ban on single-use plastic straws, other items
MONTREAL - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to end the federal single-use plastic ban on items like straws and grocery bags if his party is elected. Poilievre campaigned in Montreal this morning, as he and other federal leaders returned to the campaign trail following the two national leaders' debates ...
Apr 18, 2025
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B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail
Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy. The study published this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology analyzed f...
Apr 18, 2025
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'Freedom Convoy' organizer asks for stay of proceedings after guilty verdict
OTTAWA - "Freedom Convoy" organizer Chris Barber has asked for a stay of proceedings, two weeks after an Ontario judge found him and Tamara Lich guilty of mischief for their roles in the 2022 mass protest in Ottawa. According to a news release from the non-profit helping his defence, Barber is arguing the pro...
Apr 17, 2025
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Frank Stronach committed to stand trial after preliminary inquiry into two charges
TORONTO - An Ontario court has committed billionaire businessman Frank Stronach to stand trial on two charges related to two complainants as part of his Toronto sexual assault case. Ontario Court Justice Jacqueline Freeman made the ruling at the end of a preliminary inquiry that dealt exclusively with those two charges...
Apr 17, 2025
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U.S. students look north as Trump freezes funding to American universities
VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia has briefly reopened admissions for its graduate programs to take applications from U.S. citizens in what is a growing trend for Canadian institutions as the American president denigrates higher learning. Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., and the University of Toro...
Apr 17, 2025
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Trump says tariffs making America rich while also suggesting trade deals are coming
U.S. President Donald Trump showed little signs of backing down on his plans to tariff the world today - even as members of his administration continue to claim the duties will lead to the negotiation of new trade deals. Trump says nothing he heard during a meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval...
Apr 17, 2025
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Eby says Canadians need to 'keep the pressure up' despite California's charm campaign
VICTORIA - British Columbia's premier says Canadians need to "keep the pressure up" on the United States by buying local and avoiding travel there, despite a recent push from California to draw visitors from Canada. David Eby says he spoke with Californian Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday - the same day the go...
Apr 17, 2025
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Air traffic back to normal at Vancouver's airport after days of delays
RICHMOND - The agency that provides air traffic control for Canada's airports says traffic flow at Vancouver International Airport has resumed normal operations in time for Easter weekend travel. The update from Nav Canada comes after the agency issued posts to social media on Tuesday and Wednesday warning of flight de...
Apr 17, 2025
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Municipal politician from Gaspé Peninsula facing sex-crime charges
A municipal politician from a small town in Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula is facing sex-related charges. Bruno-Pierre Godbout, a councillor in the community of Chandler, was charged this week with sexual assault, assault with a weapon, unlawful confinement and criminal harassment. The assaults that the 36-year-old ma...
Apr 17, 2025
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Supreme Court of Canada clarifies treatment of student loan debt under bankruptcy law
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a person must wait seven years after completely finishing their post-secondary studies before they may be released from student loan debt under the federal bankruptcy law. The top court's decision comes today in the case of a woman who received government student loans in the c...
Apr 17, 2025
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Woman, two young children missing after trying to cross border into Canada: RCMP
MONTREAL - The RCMP say a woman and two young children are missing in the woods near the Quebec border with the United States after they were part of a group attempting to cross into Canada. Three other people - two men and a woman - were arrested Wednesday night after crossing the border illegally near Godmanchester, ...
Apr 17, 2025
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Party leaders face off in English for second federal leaders' debate
MONTREAL - The leaders of Canada's four main political parties will square off for a second and final leaders' debate tonight in Montreal, after an initial French-language faceoff on Wednesday. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and the Bloc Québécoi...
Apr 17, 2025
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In the news today: Federal leaders debate round 2, fewer Canadians heading stateside
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Round 2 of federal leaders' debate tonight The leaders of Canada's four main political parties will square off for a second and final leaders' debate tonight in Montreal, after an initial French-language faceoff on Wednesday. Libe...
Apr 17, 2025
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Gender-based violence spikes five years after Nova Scotia mass shooting
HALIFAX - The worst mass shooting in modern Canadian history began almost five years ago, shortly after a Nova Scotia man brutally assaulted his common-law wife. Lisa Banfield was kicked, punched and choked by her partner of 19 years on the night of April 18, 2020. She was left with fractured ribs and vertebrae but man...
Apr 17, 2025
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Quebec's move to cut gasoline floor price won't be felt at the pumps, experts say
MONTREAL - The Quebec government has made a move it hopes will lower the price of gas in the province - but observers say consumers are unlikely to benefit at the pump. They say the province has faced pressure to act since the federal government scrapped the consumer carbon price, which applied across much of the rest ...
Apr 17, 2025
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B.C. operation by police, regulators finds losses of $4M in assets to crypto fraud
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's securities regulator says a recent two-day operation to identify victims of a specific type of cryptocurrency fraud has found 89 people who were drained of more than $4 million in assets. The B.C. Securities Commission says the agency brought together regulators, police, crypto trading pl...
Apr 17, 2025
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Canada's Choice
Debate begins with party leaders laying out priorities beyond trade policy and Trump
As the French language election debate got under way Wednesday night, the four main federal party leaders were asked to lay out policy priorities that have nothing to do with the elephant in the room; U.S. President Donald Trump.Liberal Leader Mark Carney cited his promises to double housing construction, while Conserv...
Apr 16, 2025
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Economy
Bank of Canada holds key rate steady amid trade war
Bank of Canada is hitting pause after seven straight interest rate cuts as it grapples with global trade uncertainty.The central bank held its benchmark interest rate steady at 2.75 per cent today, the first time it has foregone a cut since last June.Governor Tiff Macklem says the Bank of Canada kept the key rate uncha...
Apr 16, 2025
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Nav Canada warns to expect flight delays at Vancouver International Airport
RICHMOND - The agency that provides air traffic control for Canada's airports is warning travellers at Vancouver's airport of flight delays over what it says are "resource constraints." Nav Canada says in a social media post that passengers need to check the status of their flights with their airlines before ...
Apr 16, 2025
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Court bans pro-Palestinian protests on McGill University campus for 10 days
MONTREAL - McGill University has obtained a 10-day court order against a pro-Palestinian student group forbidding protests on campus. A Quebec Superior Court judge granted the injunction Tuesday against Students for Palestinian Honour and Resistance. Group members are not permitted to block or obstruct McGill entrances...
Apr 16, 2025
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Ontario to loosen internal trade, remove barriers on alcohol and labour mobility
TORONTO - Ontario is set to table legislation to make trade between provinces easier, as a way to shore up the economy against the effects of American tariffs. Officials say the bill would make Ontario the first government in Canada to unconditionally remove all current exceptions to interprovincial free trade. The leg...
Apr 16, 2025
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